In the United States, Donald Trump between victory and resentment

Donald Trump brandishes a copy of the Washington Post titled on the White House announcement of his acquittal on February 6.
Donald Trump brandishes a copy of the Washington Post titled on the White House announcement of his acquittal on February 6. JOSHUA ROBERTS / REUTERS

Acquitted the Senate Republicans the day before for accusations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Donald Trump had announced that he would speak on Thursday, February 6, at noon in the East Room of the White House. His press service had said it would be 'Remarks'. The press invited could not ask the president a question.

The event could have been conducive to optimism and a pivot for the coming months. The president certainly welcomed "This wonderful word, I never thought it would sound so good, what is called a total acquittal "Brandishing a copy of the Washington Post officially outlawed at the White House.

But this satisfaction has been stifled regularly by bitterness and resentment. He had already been acrimonious the same morning during the "breakfast of the national prayer", generally ecumenical and very consensual.

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Having reached the last quarter of the term for which he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump has proved that the presidential office has still not taken precedence over him. For a little over an hour, he expressed himself without any real thread, guided by his inspiration as he can do during his meetings, passing from one subject to another without much logic, always coming back to him , exposing the springs that drive his presidency.

"I doubt she is praying"

He described himself once again as a martyr, the target – without it being for nothing – of a vindictiveness who would gather both his democratic opponents and enemies of the shadows, carpet in the ranks of the administration of the federal state, all uniformly qualified as "Vicious" of "Liars" of " bad guys ", of "Dishonest" and of "Corrupt".

A special fate has been reserved for the speaker (President) of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, with whom relations have gone from bad to execrable because of her indictment. She is "Horrible", "I doubt she is praying", assured the president while the latter publicly assumes her Catholic faith.

To this end, he established a link between the "Russian" investigation – conducted after his election in 2016 by special prosecutor Robert Mueller – and the Ukrainian case which resulted in this procedure.impeachment by the Democrats of the House, the latter being reduced to the state of " bullshit ". The first investigation concluded that the Russian interference – the WikiLeaks website's release of confidential information from the Democratic Party hacked by agents linked to Russia – had been denied once again.

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